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Authors: Jorie Saldanha

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CoolCatAsh:
This is totally off the subject, but is it just me, or is this conversation totally uninspired?

Adam121212:
It’s just you

CoolCatAsh:
Ur kidding me right

Adam121212:
Yeah, I think we’ve hit a bump in the road

CoolCatAsh: 
What do we do?

Adam121212:
Make-out?

CoolCatAsh:
Is that ur solution to everything?

Adam121212:
Not always

CoolCatAsh:
What are ur other solutions

Adam121212:
….

Adam121212:
Ur right, I don’t have any other solutions

CoolCatAsh:
Ur such a goober

Adam121212:
A goober?

CoolCatAsh:
Yeah

CoolCatAsh:
Do you have a problem with that

Adam121212:
No, but of all things that you could’ve said, calling me a goober is not the one I would have picked

CoolCatAsh:
Idiot. Is that better?

Adam121212:
Much

Adam121212:
You know how much I adore you, right

CoolCatAsh:
Don’t try and butter me up

CoolCatAsh:
It won’t work this time

Adam121212:
Are you sure about that

CoolCatAsh:
No

Adam121212:
Why are you fighting with me if Ur not mad

CoolCatAsh:
I don’t know

CoolCatAsh:
It just seems like we’re not having fun anymore

Adam121212:
That’s because we haven’t made-out in a while

CoolCatAsh:
Is that seriously all that you think about

Adam121212:
Yeah

CoolCatAsh:
Besides we can’t make-out through a computer

Adam121212:
So? Come over here! I miss you!

CoolCatAsh:
I miss you too.

Adam121212:
So what do you want to talk about?

CoolCatAsh:
Hey, come on you still have some sucking up to do

Adam121212:
I do, huh?

Adam121212:
Could the sucking up be in the form of making-out?

CoolCatAsh:
Okay. Earth to Adam, we’re not going to make-out

Adam121212:
But why? (Warning: whining in process)

CoolCatAsh:
You do realize how stupid you sound right?

Adam121212:
I’m only stupid for you, darling

CoolCatAsh:
What are you from the south? Darling? What’s that?

Adam121212:
I thought I’d go all Old School on you and be the romantic-hottie-from-the-south kind of guy

Adam121212:
Is it working?

CoolCatAsh:
A little

Adam121212:
I have to tell you something

CoolCatAsh:
Wait, I have something totally off the subject to ask you again. Do u think I should get back at Tom for what’s he done?

Adam121212:
Yeah, that sounds good to me.

Adam121212:
It has to be something humiliating, but not immature

Adam121212:
Not only that, but it has to be his fault that it happened

CoolCatAsh:
So in other words, he’s making himself look like a dork

Adam121212:
You bet

CoolCatAsh:
I like it, what did you have in mind

Adam121212:
Well, Tom’s a horrible basketball player, right?

CoolCatAsh:
I don’t know, is he? I haven’t been to a game yet

Adam121212:
Well he is. There’s an honor’s game night, where before the game they show highlights of the years best plays

CoolCatAsh:
So?

Adam121212:
So Hank recorded every game of the season. He has all of Tom’s flubs on film

Adam121212:
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

CoolCatAsh:
Make a collection of Tom’s mistakes on DVD, and put it on in place of the year’s highlights?

Adam121212:
You got it

CoolCatAsh:
That’s genius! And it’s not our fault that he’s terrible, it’s smart, and not a stupid prank that only causes physical injury, which isn’t cool

Adam121212:
Exactly

Adam121212:
Ash

CoolCatAsh:
Yeah

Adam121212:
I have something to tell you

Giggles4ever:
(Signed on)

CoolCatAsh:
I’ve got to go! I’m sorry, I need to talk to somebody else. It’s an emergency. Can I talk to you later? At Tina’s party maybe?

Adam121212:
Sure, I just have to tell you this

CoolCatAsh:
Bye!

 

             
Well, maybe I shouldn’t sign on as myself. Safer that way…

 

CoolCatAnita:
Giggles4ever?

Giggles4ever:
Yes?

CoolCatAnita:
Hi, I’m Anita!

Giggles4ever:
So

CoolCatAnita:
I’ve heard that you’ve got some juicy stories about Lena Bobbins

Giggles4ever:
I still don’t see where you fit in

CoolCatAnita:
Well, I’m writing a story about cheerleaders, and I want to show how vain the ones at our school are, plus I really want to get Lena kicked off of the squad

Giggles4ever:
So you want to know about Lena’s indiscretions so she can get kicked off the squad?

 

              Indiscretions? Wow, this girl wasn’t a ditz. Maybe that’s why she didn’t make the squad! She’s sarcastic, witty, and doesn’t like Lena. Talk about my kind of girl!

 

CoolCatAnita:
Pretty much. Are you game?

Giggles4ever:
Am I!

CoolCatAnita:
Great, so what do you have to tell me?

Giggles4ever:
How do I know that you’re not one of Lena’s minions?

CoolCatAnita:
How do I know that you’re not? I’m willing to take a chance

Giggles4ever:
Ok

Giggles4ever:
First off, the only reason, that this is my sign on name is so that the cheerleaders wouldn’t recognize me.

Giggles4ever:
By the way who told you about me, nobody knows this sign on name belongs to me

CoolCatAnita:
Sunshinegal

Giggles4ever:
Oh, that makes sense. She’s my best friend

CoolCatAnita:
No offense, but she seemed kind of…well…

Giggles4ever:
Ditzy? Yeah, she is, but she’s still a nice person

CoolCatAnita:
So what do you know about Lena?

Giggles4ever:
Lots, what would you like to know?

CoolCatAnita:
Everything

Giggles4ever:
Well, first off, Lena’s boobs, nose, butt, cheeks, chin, face, and hair color aren’t hers

CoolCatAnita:
Well I knew about the boobs, everything else I didn’t know about

CoolCatAnita:
She’s the bionic witch

Giggles4ever:
Oh and her
shoe size isn’t either

CoolCatAnita:
Shoe size?

Giggles4ever:
Yeah, she stuffs her feet into size 7 shoes. Even though her feet are a size 9

CoolCatAnita:
Okay, I don’t think that will help us ruin Lena though, besides I’ve known her all my life and I never knew she did that

Giggles4ever:
Well, I guess you didn’t know everything about her and you said you wanted to know everything

CoolCatAnita:
I do

CoolCatAnita:
I want to know everything that Lena doesn’t want people to know

Giggles4ever:
Ok, well the fake body parts don’t help her case

CoolCatAnita:
True

Giggles4ever: 
Anyway there’s only two secrets that I do know about that will get her kicked off the squad for sure, and that’s because they break our school’s cheerleading code

CoolCatAnita:
What are they?

 

             
Is the suspense building up in you, or is it just me? It better not be! You don’t love me? Why don’t you love me?

 

Giggles4ever:
First, in the code it says that no cheerleader should at any time be involved in other cheerleading squads except our schools.

Giggles4ever:
Lena has been reporting squad secrets to our rivals

CoolCatAnita:
The Panthers?

Giggles4ever:
You bet

CoolCatAnita:
Wow, why?

Giggles4ever:
They give her money and dates with Chippendales. Haven’t you found it weird that our squad has always been second place in every competition to the Panthers?

CoolCatAnita:
That doesn’t make sense though, why would Lena sacrifice winning for money? She hates losing

Giggles4eveer:
Because every year, she’s always been “sick” and was out with the hunks buying whatever she wanted

Giggles4ever:
So really she’s never felt the defeat

CoolCatAnita:
She’s the captain, how come no one has noticed

Giggles4ever:
Can’t you tell that the cheerleaders in our area are all extremely devoid of brain cells?

CoolCatAnita:
Ur right

CoolCatAnita:
What’s the other thing Lena has done?

Giggles4ever:
It says in the code, that no cheerleader should put herself before the others. An example of doing this would be dating family of one of the other girls

Giggles4ever:
Lena’s dated every single one of Liz’s brothers, and Jill’s brother

CoolCatAnita:
No sisters huh?

Giggles4ever:
?????

CoolCatAnita:
It’s just a joke

Giggles4ever:
Do you think you can use this info to get back at Lena?

CoolCatAnita:
I don’t know. The dating Liz and Jill’s brothers seems kind of weak

Giggles4ever:
Well, there is one more thing

CoolCatAnita:
What?

Giggles4ever:
The squad every year hasn’t had the money to go to nationals because they always seem to have spent all their money by the end of the season

CoolCatAnita:
And?

Giggles4ever:
Lena’s the financial manager as well as the Captain

Giggles4ever:
I don’t think the others have noticed how odd it is that at the end of every season, Lena’s about to go off to Malibu or something like that

CoolCatAnita:
WOW! That’s not just against the code, that’s against the law!

CoolCatAnita:
Lena seems to love stealing money and blaming it on others or hiding it

Giggles4ever:
What do you mean?

CoolCatAnita:
Nothing

Giggles4ever:
Is there anything else that I can do

CoolCatAnita:
No, I think you’ve given me all that I need

Giggles4ever:
Great

CoolCatAnita:
Wait

Giggles4ever:
What

CoolCatAnita:
I don’t think just writing an article is going to be good enough

Giggles4ever:
What do you mean?

CoolCatAnita:
I mean cheerleaders don’t usually read the newspaper

Giggles4ever:
Ur right

Giggles4ever:
Do you have any other way of getting the information out?

CoolCatAnita:
I don’t know

Giggles4ever:
First you have to catch her in the act of stealing money, or dating a brother, or leaking squad information

CoolCatAnita:
Right

CoolCatAnita:
Then I have to somehow show it to the other cheerleaders so they can kick her off of the team

Giggles4ever:
You could video camera her

Giggles4ever:
Then show it to the girls

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